Icewind Dale Beamdog's Icewind Dale: Enhanced Edition

[Jaesun]

Do they have access to the original background art, or is this going to have that awful blurry version?

 

[A user named cat]

Right off the bat, fonts look like oversized shit for retards. Backgrounds don't look too muddy though, surprisingly. Then again, all those screenshots are pretty dark. Wouldn't give these dicks $2 for rehashing old games I already played enough a decade ago.

 

[purpleblob]

Why the hell do we need *enhanced* version of IWD1? The game is the masterpiece as it is! Why the hell is Beamdog continue this atrocity of altering the games I love for the worse? For the record, there's already a mod that allows you to play IWD with BG2 engine:

http://forums.gibberlings3.net/index.php?showforum=155

If Beamdog must continue this pointless path of wasting resources, I was hoping they would rather work on PS:T....... because, you know, that games needs more facelifting than any other IE games....

 

[SniperHF]

The lulz of Beamdog's take on Avellone Style companions would be hysterical if they ever managed to do a PS:T EE.
But the IP of Torment is in a far more dubious state with Planescape being buried and InXile having a say on the Torment half. So it's hard to say if Trent could get his claws on that.

 

[jdinatale]

I wish they would have companions like Dorn from BG:EE that you could recruit if your party had 5 or fewer party members, who each had their own story and quests.

 

[eremita]

IWD series is not worth it.

EDIT: Although chaning the rules to 3.5 edition in IWD2 would be pretty awesome.

 

[roshan]

I wish they would have companions like Dorn from BG:EE that you could recruit if your party had 5 or fewer party members, who each had their own story and quests.

Faggotry detected.

 

[eremita]

This seems like a good time to ask: how good are the enhanced editions of BG and BG2? Excellent? Pretty good? Good? Decent? Average? Bad? Disgraceful? Steaming piles of shit?

I've been thinking of replaying BG and BG2, and I want to know if these enhanced editions are worth my money. I've been skeptical of this stuff ever since AOE2 HD ran like shit on my PC. But sure, different devs. So what do you guys think?

They're pretty good now (horrible when released) and Trent and his comrades are still patching it (even the first one, which is cool).

 

[Morgoth]

....after a couple of patches.

 

[aVENGER]

I wonder if Trent Oster and his team has access to the source code of IWD?

We have full access to the source code of the original game (IWD + HoW + TotLM).

Right off the bat, fonts look like oversized shit for retards.

You can control the font size with a slider.

 

[Volourn]

Playing with kits in IWD1 is intriguing but Beamdogs and they haven't suckered me yet they won't now.



I'd rather pay another $250 for a xp less PE than touch Beamndog's desperate trash.

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i also guess they got stuck remaking IWD because their bosses haven't been impressed enoguh to give them a BG3 to ruin.

 

[purpleblob]

I really don't want to see Beamdog working on BG3, so no complaints on that.

 

[haen]

Well, there is one interesting thing - apparently Linux version is planned from the start. A now I've found that Linux support for BG1:EE and BG2:EE is still on schedule. So the real question is - is there De-Enhanced Mod for BG1/BG2:EE which removes any BeamDog travesties (I don't know - new NPCs?) and gives us vanilla (sans bugs) BG1/BG2? Or maybe modders doesn't give a fuck about all this enhanced stuff?

I know that I can try to use Wine but it's hit and miss.

 

[DosBuster]

Wait isn't BGNext already in development?

 

[eremita]

Well, there is one interesting thing - apparently Linux version is planned from the start. A now I've found that Linux support for BG1:EE and BG2:EE is still on schedule. So the real question is - is there De-Enhanced Mod for BG1/BG2:EE which removes any BeamDog travesties (I don't know - new NPCs?) and gives us vanilla (sans bugs) BG1/BG2? Or maybe modders doesn't give a fuck about all this enhanced stuff?

I know that I can try to use Wine but it's hit and miss.

The new content is not a big deal really. It's just couple of NPCs with their own quest, so you just don't recruit them and that's it...

 

[aVENGER]

Hey, do you work at Beamdog?

I am a Project Manager at Beamdog and I have led IWD:EE development from start to finish.

I cannot say anything about the possibility of other Icewind Dale games at this time.

 

[Athelas]

All this time the enemy was in our midst...

All kidding aside, are there any plans for a PS:T enhanced edition?

 

[J_C]

All this time the enemy was in our midst...

All kidding aside, are there any plans for a PS:T enhanced edition?

That would be fun. It differs so much from BG and IWD, it would be interesting to see how are they trying to hamfist new NPCs into the game.

 

[DosBuster]

They'd hamfist a marriage subplot between the Nameless One and Annah most likely.

 

[Infinitron]

Story mode aside, it seems like IWD:EE is closer to what the BG:EEs should have been: an enhanced, comprehensive compilation of the best improvements the community has created over the years, as opposed to "Trent and Cameron's fan fiction mod".

 

[Grunker]

Well, I detest BG:EE/BG2:EE, but I'm not sure I feel the same towards this one. There is no BG2 port of IWD, and if they manage that plus some other interesting stuff, I guess I'm game. All the problems that plagued the idea of enhanced editions of BG and BG2 don't really plague IWD in the same way.

I just finished replaying IWD (and almost finished IWD2 for the third time... still couldn't stomach the late mid-game... it really sucks), but I would go again with those kinds of changes though.

It does beg the question however... how will they balance kits and spells from BG2 in the IWD environment?

 

[DosBuster]

Holy shit, you know what does need a fucking story mode? Planescape Torment, that really needs it.

 

[aVENGER]

Story mode aside, it seems like IWD:EE is closer to what the BG:EEs should have been: an enhanced, comprehensive compilation of the best improvements the community has created over the years, as opposed to "Trent and Cameron's fan fiction mod".

Story Mode can be turned on/off at any time. It's not something that you pick at the start and are stuck with for the remainder of your playthrough.

For veteran players, the Heart of Fury mode (from the original game) is there as well.

 

[AMG]

It does beg the question however... how will they balance kits and spells from BG2 in the IWD environment?

Same way they balanced them in BG1.
Not at all.

 

[J_C]

Well, I detest BG:EE/BG2:EE, but I'm not sure I feel the same towards this one. There is no BG2 port of IWD, and if they manage that plus some other interesting stuff, I guess I'm game. All the problems that plagued the idea of enhanced editions of BG and BG2 don't really plague IWD in the same way.

I just finished replaying IWD (and almost finished IWD2 for the third time... still couldn't stomach the late mid-game... it really sucks), but I would go again with those kinds of changes though.

It does beg the question however... how will they balance kits and spells from BG2 in the IWD environment?

It is still cheaper to mod the vanilla game though, even if you can't use the BG2 engine.